CHEF CSG May 7, 2003

1. CHEFCSGMay 7, 2003 Joseph Hardin Collaborative Technologies Lab Media Union & School of Information University of Michigan

2. University Missions • CourseTools – a first-generation course management system • WorkTools – part of a series of efforts in building systems for support of scientific research teams These two paths have a lot in common, as instances of collaboration support systems, and have led to: • CHEF – A framework for building the next generation of both systems

3. UM.CT Custom course page presented to each student

5. UM.CT Help for Remote Users Students working off campus often run into difficulty because their browser or dial-in service is not correctly configured.

6. Support for Work Groups UM.Worktools Scientific Research Groups Science Review Teams Technology Design Teams Currently over 5500 users worktools.si.umich.edu

8. Adoption of CT/WT Over 9,000 Over 35,000 WT Users – Accelerating CT Users - Saturating We see these as foundation efforts in understanding and building “Knowledge Work Support Systems” for UMich faculty, students and staff, and remote collaborators. CT Use - Deepening

9. So, CHEF as Next Step(s) http://chefproject.org

11. Shared CoreFeatures: Logon File upload Announcements Discussion Chat Schedule Mail archive … CourseTools: Assignments Quizzes … Worktools: ToDo list Data Access … Gradebook CAPA Quizzes Teleobservation – NEES Informatics/MetaData - CMCS DissertationTool OKI APIs CHEF Technology Leveraging Education/Research Complementarities

12. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation

13. Grid CoG XML CoG XML CHEF node CHEF node CHEF and the Grid – Access to Globally Distributed Computing Resources Moving to GRID services model (OGSA) as it develops. And it did last Wednesday…

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25. CMCS is enabled by broad collaboration • Development partnerships cut across offices and agencies • Collaborations also include CCA, SDM ISICS. • A collaboration of eight national labs and universities span chemical scales • Collaboration opportunities for future • Xportlets work at Indiana University • Portal web Services • NeesGrid work at University of Michigan SAM

26. CMCS Explorer is a data management tool for accessing data across DAV resources. The default address in CMCS Explorer for My Workspace is the path to your personal data folder. In a team workspace, the default address points to the team’s data folder. CMCS Explorer shows tree and file views, can spawn viewers and tools for specific files, and has search, notification and pedigree capabilities.

27. Current Implementation

28. Pedigree Browsing in CHEF Data is linked to projects, references, inputs, and outputs The Browser enables metadata editing.

29. Automatic Translation and Metadata Extraction Data translations provided automatically by SAM using previously registered XSLT’s for this file type.

30. Pedigree Graph in CMCS Pedigree graph provides a two-dimensional visualization of a data resource and all of its relationships. Users can easily see the relationships without following all pedigree links.

31. Data + Metadata • Metadata allows the creation of revolutionary new types of collaborative chemical science projects, coordinating research efforts across chemical scales. • Metadata dramatically increases accessibility of state-of-the-art research knowledge to industry and the public. • CMCS data repository with pedigree tracking provides a new means for evaluating research claims. • CMCS pedigree graphing provides a visual representation of data relationships. • CMCS metadata supports allows scientific peer review of electronic data, which is important to groups like IUPAChem. • CMCS metadata is extensible.

32. Leveraging Research Support • NSF National Middleware Initiative grant • U Michigan • U Texas-Austin • Indiana U • NCSA • Argonne National Lab 3 year support for core GRID services integration; Jetspeed/CHEF as portal tech

33. CHEF Summary • CourseTools.NG – online support for learning; in pilot, fall rollout • WorkTools.NG – online support for research, workgroups; in development for NEES, CMCS, NMI, rollout late summer; continuing development • Goals – enhance online tools; make it easy to move between teaching and research; build standards efforts, collaborations so market of components develops

34. Why Open Source CMS? • University should not outsource a core competence – teaching • It fits University value structures, we are an open community • It can build the extended academic community through collaboration and shared effort • It is a grand experiment, worthy of the University’s participation

35. CHEF Architecture Services Persistent System-wide Multiple implementations of services Configurable as to what implementation provides what service Services API Teamlets: Written in JAVA Responsible for GUI Operate in the context of a session. Rely on services for any persistent or “cross-user” information. Portal Engine: Jetspeed Velocity CHEF Web Server: Tomcat Turbine Servlets:Access services outside of the portal engine: AccessServlet and WebDavServlet Non-HTTP Components (i.e. E-Mail)

36. O K I CHEF/OKI Relationship Services Persistent System-wide Multiple implementations of services Configurable as to what implementation provides what service Services API Teamlets: Written in JAVA Responsible for GUI Operate in the context of a session. Rely on services for any persistent or “cross-user” information. Portal: Tomcat Turbine Jetspeed + CHEF extensions to Jetspeed …. ….

37. Authentication Authorization Local ID Logging DBC Shared Objects (Agent, Group, AgentIterator) Filing (*) Hierarchy (*) UserMessaging (*) WorkFlow (**) Scheduling (**) OKI APIs – CHEF Implementation As OKI APIs become available we either swap out CHEF APIs or build OKI translators – ‘Innovate and Normalize’ * unpublished but well enough along that we can do something ** unpublished, unspecified localid and locallyuniqueidentifier

38. Tool Tool OAI Records Tool Tool Tool Tool Tool Tool NSDL OAIster/CHEF Proposal User portals DLXS Middleware OKI DR n 2 User 1 • Transformation • Indexing • Filtering Team-aware Portlets • Query • Response OKI APIs OAIster Topical Data Sets • Retrieving • Saving • New Search DLXS Web Services Standard CHEF services (e.g., Discussions, Schedule) Added Value: Saving/retrieving query/response sets In team context Team aware portlets include Standard CHEF tools plus Search (with search tracking) CHEF

39. A CHEF Application Jetspeed CHEF OKI Grid Turbine Portlet Portlet Velocity XML/XSLT HTML Portlet PERL, JSP, etc Current CHEF Environment CHEF Uses Jetspeed as its tool coordination framework, velocity as its presentation language, Portlet for its tool specification, and Turbine for its service broker. There is a wide range of underlying services including OKI, CHEF, and Grid Services. CHEF/Jetspeed also supports “simple” integration of tools using an i-frame which are not portlet-based. Ideally, all of these interfaces would not be based on a particular product (Jetspeed, uPortal, WebSphere, etc) but instead would be based on a standard which was supported across products. Then we could share components.

40. Standards Efforts • The full suite of standards is several years out • Some need our input now • OKI – we are working in this space • WSRP – Support WSDL (i.e. pre-presentation data) instead of HTML (post-presentation) • JSR-168 and WSIA – Service lifecycle, brokering, discovery • We need to start a collaborative effort to bring order to this problem space • CHEF has one useful architecture to provide transition • In both the Educational and Research support areas • As standards evolve, we can quickly test and deploy them • Becoming “Jetspeed agnostic” by abstracting APIs • If we can work together to solve the standards problems, organizations can maintain their existing portals and add support for these standards, upgrading as they go.

41. Cross-Portal Development • IMS at data level • OKI at services level • Building channel adapters for Jetspeed<->uPortal • WSRP++ and display level ‘standards’ and best practices • Setting up meeting with uPortal, CHEF, IU portal, Stellar MIT developers to discuss, figure out next steps Goal is, always, interoperable components

42. Component Interoperability • Navigo project • Michigan,MIT,Stanford,Indiana • Goal is real tool, module interoperability • On the way to standards

43. Research, Teaching and Public Service • Alliance for Community Technology • African AIDs Project • AIHEC – American Indian Higher Education Consortium How do open source, collaborative efforts contribute to and help us understand the new information dynamics in all our domains of interest?

44. CHEF Project Site http://chefproject.org

45. stop hardin@umich.edu